"Rione Amedeo, Naples, Italy. He married a Swiss woman and they had a son Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown who founded Brown, Boveri & Cie. Charles Brown died on 6 October 1905 at Basle. Charles Brown (engineer) Charles Brown (1827–1905) was a British engineer. He was born at Uxbridge on 30 June 1827 and was apprenticed to Maudslay, Sons and Field. In 1851 he moved to Switzerland to join the Sulzer company. In 1871 he left Sulzer to set up Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM). While at SLM he invented the Brown valve gear, a radial valve gear for steam"
"of the English landscape garden was Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown (1716–1783) who began his career in 1740 as a gardener at Stowe under Charles Bridgeman, then succeeded William Kent in 1748. Brown's contribution was to simplify the garden by eliminating geometric structures, alleys, and parterres near the house and replacing them with rolling lawns and extensive views out to isolated groups of trees, making the landscape seem even larger. ""He sought to create an ideal landscape out of the English countryside."" He created artificial lakes and used dams and canals to transform streams or springs into the illusion that a river"
"of the aristocracy and gentry; it showed that the owner could afford to keep land that was not being used for a building, or for food production. In the early 18th century, landscape gardening for the aristocracy entered a golden age, under the direction of William Kent and Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown. They refined the English landscape garden style with the design of natural, or ""romantic"", estate settings for wealthy Englishmen. Brown, remembered as ""England's greatest gardener"", designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure. His influence was so great that the contributions to the English garden made by his"
"Loraine's kitchen garden at Kirkharle Hall till he was 23. In 1739 he journeyed south arriving at the port of Boston, Lincolnshire. Then he moved further inland where his first landscape commission was for a new lake in the park at Kiddington Hall, Oxfordshire. He moved to Wotton Underwood House, Buckinghamshire, seat of Sir Richard Grenville. In 1741, Brown joined Lord Cobham's gardening staff as undergardener at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, where he worked under William Kent, one of the founders of the new English style of landscape garden. At the age of 26 he was officially appointed as the Head Gardener"
"Thomas Browne (officer of arms) Thomas Browne (1708–1780), Garter Principal King of Arms, the second son of John Browne of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, became Bluemantle Pursuivant in 1737, Lancaster Herald in 1743, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms in 1761, and Garter in 1774 until his death. Browne was the most eminent land surveyor in the kingdom, and was called ""Sense Browne,"" to distinguish him from his contemporary, Lancelot Brown, who was usually called Capability Brown. At first he resided at his seat of Little Wimley near Stevenage, Hertfordshire, which ""he received with his wife."" He later moved to Camville Place,"
"contrasted (""the antithesis"") to the œuvre of André Le Nôtre, the French ""jardin à la française"" landscape architect. He became both ""rich and honoured and had 'improved' a greater acreage of ground than any landscape architect"" who preceded him. A festival to celebrate the tercentenary of Brown's birth was held in 2016. The Capability Brown Festival 2016 published a large amount of new research on Brown's work and held over 500 events across Britain as part of the celebrations. Royal Mail issued a series of Landscape Stamps in his honour in August 2016. The Gardens Trust with support from Historic"
"London, on 15 April 1791, aged sixty-one. Alexander Garden (naturalist) Alexander Garden FRSE FRS (January 1730 – 15 April 1791) was a Scottish physician, botanist and zoologist. The gardenia flower is named after him. He lived for many years in Charleston, South Carolina, using his spare time to study plants and living creatures, and sending specimens to Carl Linnaeus. Garden was born in January 1730 in Birse, Aberdeenshire, the son of Rev Alexander Garden (1685–1756) the parish minister. He studied medicine at Marischal College in the mid-1740s, discovering an interest in natural history while there. After two years as a"
"landscape, a ""gardenless"" form of landscape gardening, which swept away almost all the remnants of previous formally patterned styles. His landscapes were at the forefront of fashion. They were fundamentally different from what they replaced, the well-known formal gardens of England which were criticised by Alexander Pope and others from the 1710s. Starting in 1719, William Kent replaced these with more naturalistic compositions, which reached their greatest refinement in Brown's landscapes. At Hampton Court, Brown encountered Hannah More in 1782 and she described his ""grammatical"" manner in her literary terms: """"'Now ""there said he, pointing his finger, 'I make a"
"John Arnesby Brown Sir John Alfred Arnesby Brown (29 March 1866 in Nottingham – 16 November 1955 in Haddiscoe, Norfolk) was an English landscape artist, ""one of the leading British landscape artists of the 20th century"" and best known for his impressionistic depictions of pastoral landscapes, often featuring cattle. Arnesby Brown first studied at the Nottingham School of Art in the late 1880s. He has been called ""the artist Nottingham forgot"", with little remaining reference to him in Nottingham. He later studied at the Bushey School of Art in Hertfordshire for four years from 1889. After exhibiting at the Royal"
"life. He grew jaded that his best work went unrecognised, and died 26 October 1895, only 53 years old, working to the night of his death as a writer. He was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. In addition to many scientific papers, articles, and reviews in various languages, his publications included: Robert Brown (botanist, born 1842) Robert Brown (23 March 1842 – 26 October 1895) was a Scottish scientist, explorer, and author. Brown was born in Camster, Caithness, and studied in the universities of Edinburgh, Leyden, Copenhagen, and Rostock. He took the habit of referring to his home town, Campster"
"by Linnaeus for his ""Species Plantarum"" (1753). His grandfather, Englishman George Clifford I, moved from Stow (where his father was rector) to Amsterdam around 1640, beginning an Anglo-Dutch banking dynasty. Subsequent members of the Clifford Family were prominent leaders in Amsterdam. George Clifford III George Clifford III (7 January 1685, Amsterdam – 10 April 1760, Heemstede) was a wealthy Dutch banker and one of the directors of the Dutch East India Company. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens. His estate Hartekamp had a rich variety of plants and he engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von"
"his personal friend John Smith, who bequeathed Tradescant a quarter of his library. From their botanical garden in Lambeth, on the south bank of the Thames, he and his son, John, introduced many plants into English gardens that have become part of the modern gardener's repertory. A genus of flowering plants (""Tradescantia"") is named to honour him. Tradescant Road, off South Lambeth Road in Vauxhall, marks the former boundary of the Tradescant estate. He was buried in the churchyard of St-Mary-at-Lambeth, as was his son; the churchyard is now established as the Garden Museum. He is the subject of the"
"N. E. Brown Nicholas Edward Brown (11 July 1849 in Redhill, Surrey – 25 November 1934 in Kew Gardens, London) was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents. He was also an authority on several families of plants, including Asclepiadaceae, Aizoaceae, Labiatae and Cape plants. He started work as an assistant in the Herbarium at Kew in 1873, and was Assistant Keeper from 1909-1914. His drawings of succulent plants were made in connection with his revision of the genus ""Mesembryanthemum"", which appeared in 1931, and are accompanied by detailed annotations. He was the author of important works on plant"
"by John Joseph Bennett. He served as President of the Linnean Society from 1849 to 1853. Brown died at 17 Dean Street, Soho Square in London, on 10 June 1858. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Brown's name is commemorated in the Australia herb genus ""Brunonia"" as well as numerous Australian species such as ""Eucalyptus brownii"", ""Banksia brownii"" and the moss Brown's Tetrodontium Moss (""Tetrodontium brownianum""), a species which he discovered growing at Roslin near Edinburgh whilst still a student. The plant can still be found at the site of its discovery. Passing through the suburb of"
"lists Wimbledon Park a Grade II* protected monument, suggest that the Duchess consulted the landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman, but the extent of his contribution is unknown. Through the Duchess of Marlborough, Wimbledon manor passed, in 1744, to her heir, the 10-year-old John, Viscount Spencer, soon to be made the 1st Earl Spencer.Under a contract of late 1764 Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown undertook landscaping projects in the park, which still comprised some 1200 acres; his work, which included the lake (Wimbledon Park Lake), was complete by 1768, In 1780, Hannah More visited the house as the guest of Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of"
"two wives and leaving three sons and a daughter. In Lady Larpent's garden at Roehampton, Hampshire, ""Ceratostigma plumbaginoides"" was first successfully flowered in England; it was at first given the name ""Plumbago larpentae"", ""Lady Larpent's Plumbago"". George Larpent Sir George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent, 1st Baronet (16 February 1786 – 8 March 1855) was a British businessman of Huguenot and Dutch descent and a Liberal Party politician. Larpent born in London. His elder brother inherited the Hungarian title of Baron de Hochpied, through his mother's line, in 1819. At that time he added de Hochepied to his family name, Larpent."
"earlier. The Poet Laureate William Whitehead was a visitor, and it was he who coined the change of spelling from ""Newenham"" to ""Nuneham"" in 1764. The Archbishop of York commissioned the architect Robert Smirke to make unaesthetic but functional extensions to the house in the 1830s. Further alterations to the house were made in 1904. The design of the original landscape garden park owed much to the poet and gardener the Rev. William Mason, who designed its formal flower garden in 1771. George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt commissioned the renowned Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown to make alterations to the landscape"
"couples when most almshouses were intended for single people. Bombing during the Second World War hindered the development of houses but it now owns 44 properties. Hasluck died on 2 July 1937. He is buried at Bells Hill Burial Ground, Chipping Barnet. He and his family are remembered in the streets Hasluck Gardens and Greenhill Park in New Barnet, and Lancelot Gardens near Oak Hill Park. Lancelot Gerald Hasluck Lancelot Gerald Hasluck (10 November 1861 - 2 July 1937) was an English surveyor and philanthropist who founded the Lancelot Hasluck Trust. Lancelot Gerald Hasluck was born in Enfield, Middlesex, on"
"1942 and a Corresponding Member in 1980, having been awarded their Union Medal in 1970. Obituaries were published in ""British Birds"", ""Scopus"", ""The Ibis"", ""Scottish Birds"", and ""Raptor Research"". Leslie Hilton Brown Leslie Hilton Brown (25 August 1917 – 6 August 1980) was a British agriculturalist and naturalist. Brown was born in Coonoor, India to a Scottish family in 1917, the son of Hilton Brown, novelist, biographer and BBC radio producer. He was educated at Oundle School and St Andrews University where he studied zoology. He then studied courses in tropical agriculture at Cambridge University and the Imperial College of"
"secured over £1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop a new visitors centre, car parking, exhibition space and accessible paths. Work was completed in summer 2011 and the park opened to the public on 4 August 2011. There is a memorial column dedicated to Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown. It was originally placed near the Bowling Green House, which was remodelled by Batty Langley in 1735, but is now located in the eastern part of the gardens. The column has the inscription: ""These gardens, originally laid out by Henry Duke of Kent, were altered by Philip Earl of Hardwicke and Jemima"
"His best-known works were: [[Category:1755 births]] [[Category:1830 deaths]] [[Category:People from Utrecht (city)]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Aberdeen]] William Laurence Brown William Laurence Brown (7 January 1755 – 11 May 1830) was a Scottish minister. Brown was born in Utrecht. His father was minister of the English church there, but was then appointed professor of ecclesiastical history at St Andrews, and returned to Scotland in 1757. His son went to the grammar school there, and then to the university. After passing through the divinity classes, he went in 1774 to the university of Utrecht, where he studied theology and civil"
"Christopher Lloyd (gardener) Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE (2 March 1921 – 27 January 2006) was a British gardener and author. He was the 20th-century chronicler for thickly planted, labour-intensive country gardening. Lloyd was born in Great Dixter, into an upper-middle-class family, the youngest of six children. In 1910, his father, Nathaniel Lloyd (an Arts and Crafts designer of posters and other images for confectionery companies), purchased Great Dixter, a manor house in Northiam, East Sussex near the south coast of England. Edwin Lutyens was hired to renovate and extend the house and advise on the structure of the garden. Nathaniel"
"John Tradescant the Younger John Tradescant the Younger (; 4 August 1608 – 22 April 1662), son of John Tradescant the elder, was a botanist and gardener, born in Meopham, Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury. Like his father, who collected specimens and rarities on his many trips abroad, he undertook collecting expeditions to Virginia between 1628 and 1637 (and possibly two more trips by 1662, though Potter and other authors doubt this). Among the seeds he brought back, to introduce to English gardens were great American trees, including magnolias, bald cypress and tulip tree, and garden plants"
"the noted landscape architect 'Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783). In developing the Reserve, Hunt purchased 5000 acres of land, restored buildings and oversaw the reintroduction of wildlife and various species of flora and fauna. Hunt's private residence is adjacent to the Reserve; within the Reserve Hunt has made various buildings available for private hire, including Sibton Hall. He told the ""Financial Times"": ""Farming alone won’t pay for a modern estate to survive. Real estate will."" Hunt is married to Lois, a former nurse, and they have four children together. In press reports he is described as having the ""bearing and manner"
"John Claudius Loudon John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1783 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study. Loudon was born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland to a respectable farmer. Therefore, as he was growing up, he developed a practical knowledge of plants and farming. As a young man, Loudon studied biology, botany and agriculture at the University of Edinburgh. When working on the layout of farms in South Scotland, he"
"gloves, Madam, their father-in-law, Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead!"""". Brown was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul, the parish church of Brown's small estate at Fenstanton Manor. He left an estate of approximately ₤40,000, which included property in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire. His eldest daughter Bridget married the architect Henry Holland. Brown sent two of his sons to Eton. One of them, Lancelot Brown the younger, became the MP for Huntingdon. His son John joined the Royal Navy and rose to become an admiral. Many of Capability Brown's parks and gardens may still be visited"
"Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, who was responsible for landscaping between the years 1772 and 1782, joined the ponds to create the two lakes separated by a dam-cum-bridge, planting clumps of trees, installing sunk fences and the ha-ha. Burton Constable is one of Brown's best documented projects, as notes of his eight visits and the instructions he issued whilst touring the ongoing works were recorded and kept by the estate steward, John Raines. Known as ""Hints from Mr. Brown"" or ""Mr Brown's Directions"", the documents were digitised in 2016 as part of Burton Constable's contributions to the Capability Brown Festival, celebrating the"
"John Tradescant the Elder John Tradescant the Elder (; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector and traveller, probably born in Suffolk, England. He began his career as head gardener to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury at Hatfield House, who initiated Tradescant in travelling by sending him to the Low Countries for fruit trees in 1610/11. He was kept on by Robert's son William, to produce gardens at the family's London house, Salisbury House. He then designed gardens on the site of St Augustine's Abbey for Edward Lord"
"which have been anthologised. One common anthology piece sometimes associated with his name is also ""The Aiken Drum"". He is best remembered today for ""The Brownie of Blednoch"" (1828), a favourite of the poet Marion Angus (1865–1946), and ""The Braes of Galloway"". William Nicholson (poet) William Nicholson (1782–1849) was a Scottish poet, born in the village of Borgue in Kirkcudbrightshire. He was also known variously as ""The Bard of Galloway"" and the itinerant singer and packman, ""Wandering Wull"". His best writing makes distinctive use of his native Scots language and many of his works are in the form of song."
"Brown's birth. The water began to trickle through the cascade on 30th August 2016, the 300th anniversary of Brown's baptism at St Wilfrid's Church. The lake, grounds and St Wilfrid's church are open to the public as part of the Kirkharle Courtyard Visitor Center. The artist and fox hunter Charles Loraine Smith was born to a Loraine and adopted the name of Smith whilst a boy. Kirkharle Kirkharle (otherwise Kirk Harle) is a hamlet in the county of Northumberland in Northern England located about west of the town of Morpeth, just to the west of the crossroads of the A696"
"Thomas Johnson (botanist) Thomas Johnson (died 1644) was an English botanist, and a royalist colonel in the English Civil War. He has been called the ""father of British field botany"". Johnson was born at Selby in Yorkshire between 1595 and 1600. He seems to have received a good education, and to have become an apothecary in London by 1626. Possibly before that he was living in Lincolnshire (Gerard, ""Herball"", ed. 1633, p. 74). In 1629 he was in business on Snow Hill, city of London, where he had a physic-garden, and had become a prominent member of the Apothecaries' Company."
"Colvin attributed to him the Gothick interior of the Chapel. Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown had been on hand since 1749. Brown, who was still head gardener at Stowe at the time and had yet to make his reputation as the main exponent of the English landscape garden, was called in by Lord Brooke to give Warwick Castle a more ""natural"" connection to its river. Brown simplified the long narrow stretch by sweeping it into a lawn that dropped right to the riverbank, stopped at each end by bold clumps of native trees. A serpentine drive gave an impression of greater distance"
"Brown's publications, see . Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLS MWS (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, including"